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RENT-FREE LAND for industry is being offered by Montana's Blackfoot Indians on 1,697-sq.-mi. reservation near railroad, highways with ample electric power. Tribe wants to create employment source for 4,200 Blackfeet, now hard-pressed to make a living on their ancestral grounds...
...soared to $41 million and is still climbing fast. Oklahoma's Osage tribe alone took in some $11 million last year, split it into $7,000 packets for the holders of "head rights," i.e., ownership shares of reservation land. Other tribes, such as Montana's Crow and Blackfeet, Colorado's Utes and Utah's Uintah-Ourays, turn all funds over to tribal councils for community projects. Last year Colorado's Southern Ute tribe signed a contract with Blue Cross and Blue Shield for group medical insurance, while New Mexico's Jicarilla Apaches have been...
...when Hero David meets a squaw whose bare bosom makes him think of a pair of "sun-darkened thimbleberries," the two passions of his career are united; he is a goner. To reassure critics of integration, Author Fisher takes pains to show that Squaw Sunday, princess of the Blackfeet, is really white. Covered as she is with bear grease and vermillion, she smells pretty bad. But to a man who can survive temperature cold enough to split a tree and "mosquitoes as big as owls," this is by no means a deterrent...
Heading Home. In the spring, the expedition turned back, trying new routes. They had their horses stolen by Crows, got into a fight with Blackfeet, and had another Indian scare during which Lewis was accidentally shot in the buttocks. On Sept. 23, 1806, grimy, bearded and bursting with marvelous tales of things no other white man had ever seen or heard of, they reached St. Louis, "met by all the village and received a harty welcom from it's inhabitants...
...visit, Mohammed Ali plans to make a dozen talks, to see Old Faithful and Mt. Rushmore's heroic sculptures, and to get a medical checkup, a Columbia honorary degree and a tribal welcome from the Blackfeet Indians. This week in Washington he will confer with President Eisenhower on "matters of mutual interest." This month the U.S. plans to send Pakistan its first arms shipment under the new mutual-aid pact...